Accelerating Success For 10 Years

 

Entrepreneurship is risky and hard. It takes passion and tenacity to start up and expand a business. We’re here to help. We start by building relationships. We make it clear to our clients that we’re here for them as long as they need us. Startup or expansion, we will hold hands and walk the path together.

Located in the mid-valley of Oregon, we provide leadership, tools, capacity, and processes for growing the regional economy. We know our local industries: manufacturing, agriculture, wine, medicine, agribusiness, food production, medicine, and education. These industry segments are well-established, with businesses willing to foster innovation, buy your products, and supply your materials.

We help businesses and non-profits from the start-up through expansion stage. It starts by building a relationships with our clients so they trust us to ask hard questions and know that they can reach out to us for help when ready.

Over 10 years, we’ve had dropouts, failures, and successes. We’ve supported economic development initiatives, CTE/workforce development, and education initiatives. But our heart and soul is with entrepreneurs.

We coach/mentor, introduce you to prospective partners, customers, suppliers, and investors/financing opportunities. Equally important, we are part of a larger innovation web and can link you to wide variety of resources. Though our accelerator space is limited, we provide rent-free work space for clients when available. Interested?

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OUR CLIENT EXPERIENCE

We have advised dozens of clients:

  • Start-ups that dropped out, failed, succeeded, even set a new industry standard in the U.S.
  • Small businesses that are still small or have expanded into larger businesses
  • Students who wanted to start their own business
  • Non-profits that moved the needle for their community

We also claim another type of success: helping people decide not to get into a bad business situation.

Fidgetech, Incusense, Mt. Angel Sodas, Remnant Initiatives, Kratos, Revino, Standard Nursery, Where-to-Eat Guide, Pure Light Botanical Beauty, Life2Launch… These are a few of the companies we’ve helped that graduated from start-up or accelerated their successes.

Our mission is to assist you with your business, not promise you’ll become a unicorn. But we’ll do what we can to help you achieve that.

RESOURCES

Launch Mid-Valley Innovation Hub: a thriving resource for entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses across Marion, Polk, and Yamhill Counties.

SEDCOR: provides a range of business development services and programs designed to strengthen the Mid-Willamette Valley’s regional economy. One key initiative is the Launch Mid-Valley Innovation Hub, which is backed by other regional entities.

Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce & McMinnville Chamber of Commerce: great resources for Main Street businesses as well at traded-sector businesses.

McMinnville Economic Development Partnership (MEDP): A core member of the LMV Innovation Hub, MEDP takes the lead in assisting businesses in and around McMinnville.

Chemeketa’s Small Business Development Center: offers advising, classes and other help for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership (OMEP): OMEP specializes in helping small to medium size Manufacturing businesses.

Small Business Administration (SBA): offers a wide range of services, programs, and financing: Need a business plan start? Download one of their Word templates.

SCORE: a partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Local SCORE mentors are available for assistance.

Willamette Workforce Partnership: Focused on building the region’s workforce/talent, the partnership provides education and assists in placement.

Technology Association of Oregon: provides great statewide information and resources.

Biz Oregon: The state’s business, innovation, and entrepreneurship agency.

EVENTS

The Launch Mid-valley Regional Innovation Hub functions as collaborative hub of organizations that work together to foster entrepreneurship and business/non-profit success. Check the LMV calendar to keep up with events and networking opportunities.

ABOUT THE CHEHALEM VALLEY ACCELERATOR

ChehalemVIA is a non-profit, community-supported, volunteer-led, business accelerator sponsored by the Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce. Its mission is to help local entrepreneurs and businesses succeed so that our region’s economy and way-of-life grow in a balanced way. Located in the heart of Willamette Valley and Oregon wine country, our idyllic setting is a bonus.